Apparatus for demonstrating toys.



B. F. BAIN.

APPARATUS FOR DEMONSTRATING TOYS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. |915.

1,1 62,546. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET L MM g% WW @fr a :ol-UMBIA PLANMRAPH Cv.. wAsHxNoroN. D. c.

B. F. BAIN.

APPARATUS FOR DEMONSTRATING TOYS.

' APPucATloN FILED :une 28.1915. 1 162,546 Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

Y s SHEETS- sneer 2.

FIG. 2

INVENTOR wlTNEs-SES Wp La COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Co.,w^sHlN'r0N. D. c.

B. F. BAIN. APPARATUS Foa DEMONSIRATING TOYS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. I9I5. 1,162,546. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

N FIG.4 f

9 e mi f-nunn J ik /Z I. I II lli Z5 4f F|G.3 g5

WITNESSES INVENTOR @ETTEN STATES ATENT @FFTQEQ BENJAMIN F. BAIN, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR DEMONSTR-ATING TOYS.

Application. led June 2S, 1915.

To all whom t may concern.' Y

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. BAIN, a resident of Fittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a nen1 and useful improvement in Apparatus for Demonstrating Toys, of Which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display apparatus, and particularly to apparatus for displaying` and operating toys.

The object of the invention is to provide apparatus of this kind for displaying' in operation toys operated by sand, iine shot, marbles or other similar operating material, and which apparatus may be used in shov7 Windows or department stores or on the demonstrating tables in the sales department thereof.

A further object of the invention is te provide apparatus of this kind which requires no attention on the part of the operator but Will maintain the toy or toys n operation over an extended period, thereby enabling the salesman to give his full attention to purchasers.

The invention comprises the apparatus hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, which represent one embodiment ofthe invention, Figure lis a front view; Fig. 2 is a rear vieiv With the casing' Vopen to expose the operating mechanism; Fig. 2a is an end view of the casing, the toys beine; omitted; Fig. 3 is a detail sectional elevation on the line 3 3, Fig. 1; Fig'. 4L is a similar view on the line H, Fig. 2; Figs. 5 and 6 are cross sectional views on the lines 5-5 and 6 6, Fig. 2; and Fig'. 7 is a detail plan view of the run- Wav for the marble toy.

Referring;` to the drawings, the apparatus illustrated comprises a suitable cabinet or casing 1 having an upright portion 2 and an outwardly extending' bottom portion or base 3 providing),` a flat floor 1t to receive the toy or toys to be demonstrated. These toys may be of anv suitable description operated by finely divided material, such as sand or iine shot.I or by balls, marbles or the like. In the drawings, one toy, marked 5, is a so-called sand toy of the general form shown in the prior patents to Mahan and Moran, 911.602, February 9, 1909, and Martin and Wallace, 995,546, June 20, 1911. but may be like that shown in my prior application for mechanical toy, Serial No. 2,556, filed January 16,1915, or any other sand operated Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 39, 1915.

Serial No. 38,803.

toy, While the other toy, marked 6, is of Y the form shown in my prior patent for toy,

No. 1,113,945, dated @ctober 20, 1914.

The sand toy 5 embodies a hopper 7 containing' a. supply of sand, ne shot or other similar material `vhich is delivered automatically by a gate or valve 8 into a car or receptacle 9 connected to a counter-Weight 10, said car traveling' up and down an inclined track 11 and delivering into a receiver 12 at its bottom. The marble operated toy G comprises a trough 13 arranged to receive and hold a roiv of balls or marbles 14 which are delivered automatically one by one into a car or receiver 15 connected to a counter- Weight 16, said car traveling up and doivn between the vertical Ways 17 and discharging` its marbles one by one into a receiver 1S at the bottom of said Ways. In both of these toys, to Wit, the sand toy and the marble toy, each individual load, that is, a charge of sand or a single marble, when deposited in the movable car or receptacle produces a complete cycle of movements theref of. In other Words, the individual load moves the car downwardly to its loiver limit `of travel and simultaneously lifts the toys from which said material or marbles are delivered to the cars of the tovs. rThis mechanism embodies two endless belt conveyers 19, 29 provided with buckets 21, one of said conveyers being provided for the sand toy and the other for the marble toy. The conveyer 19 travels over top and bottom pulleys 22, 28, the bottom pulley beine; surrounded by a casing or box rThe receiver 12 into Which the sand. toy 5 discharges has a bottom outlet deliveringto a conduit 25 which communicates Wit-h the casing or box 24. Each bucket of the conveyer 19 dips into the sand in said casing and takes a load therefrom and as it travels over the upper pulley 22 discharges said load into a bin 26, from Which the sand flows through a pipe 27 extending out through the wall of the casing 1 to aV position over the hopper 7.

The marbles for operating the marble toy 6 emerge from the receiver `18 and travel along a gutter 28 to an opening .29 inthe floor e from which they travel through a tortuous runway 30 to a box or casing 31 surrounding the lower pulley 32 over which travels the conveyer 20. above the casing 31 is a'hollow extension 33 of a size suflicient to hold a dozen or more marbles. As the marbles roll from the runway 30 into the cas- 31 they drop in front of the moving buckets 21 of the conveyer 20. Each bucket picks up a marble and if a plurality of marbles are present they are pushed upwardly and to one side in the extension so that only a single marble is lifted by each bucket. These vmarbles are carried over the top of the upper pulley and are discharged into a box 35, from which they run through a trough 36 to a conduit 37 eX- teuding through the wall of the casing 1 and terminating above the trough 13.

rlhe upper pulleys 29, and 311 are connected to rotate together by a sprocket chain 38, and one of said pulleys, such as the pulley 3e, is provided with a sprocket 39 from which a chain l() leads to a sprocket on a short shaft 4:1. Said shaft is provided with a large belt wheel l2 over which passes a belt t3 from a small pulley 44: on the shaft of la driving motor, such as an electric mo- `mi 45.

Invoperating this device both toys are provided with full supplies of the operating medium, the toy 5 with the proper supply of sand or other finely divided material, and the toy (i with a suflicient number of balls or marbles. If the mechanism is stopped the sand and marbles collect in the boxes or receivers 9.4 and 31. Then the motor is started sand and marbles are elevated by their respective conveyers andi discharged into their respective toys, which continueto operate in the usual inanneras long" as the motor is' allowed to run. .The apparatus therefore is of particular value for demonstrating toys in show windows of department stores, as no attention is required after the mechanism is started. It can also be used on demonstrating tables in sales departments and in any other place where it is desired to operate the toy for an eX- tended period.

What I claim is:

1. Apparatus for displaying toys, comprising in'combination, a toy embodying' a movable member adapted to be operated through One'complete cycle of movement by an individual load depositedtherein, a sup Copies of this patent may be obtained for Y ply receptacle arranged to automatically deliver an individual load to said member at the beginning of 'each'cycle of its movement, a receiver' at a lower level into which said loads are deposited by the movable member, and mechanism for transferring said loads from the receiver to the supply receptacle and maintaining a supply of loads therein.

2. Apparatus for displaying toys, comprising in combination, a toy embodying a reciprocating` member adapted to operate back and forth through one complete cycle bv depositing an individual load therein,a supply receptacle arranged to automatically deliver an individual lead to lsaid member at the beginning of each cycle of its move ment, a receiver at a lower level vinto which said loads are deposited by the member, and mechanism for transferring said loads'from the receiver to the supply receptacle and maintaining a supply of loads therein.

3.Apparatus for displaying toys, comprising in combination, a toy embodying a reciprocating member adapted to be operated in one directionby an individual load deposited therein, a counterweight adapted to be lifted by said load for returning the member to initial'position when saidgload is released therefrom, a supply receptacle arrangedto automatically deliver individual loads tor said member,` a receiver into which said loads are deposited by said member, and a power operated'continuouslyV acting 'elevator for liftingthe loads from Vthe receiver tothe supply receptacle and 'maintaining a' supply of loads therein.. i

e. Apparatus for displaying toys, comprising a casing' having a shelf'to support aA toy, an elevator within 'said casing, means for conducting toy'operating material Vfrom the outside of said casing throughthe same to the elevator,1 and means for'conducting material fromV said elevator 'to the outside of' the casing at a higher level than's'aidV ELBnn'r L. I-IYDE,

GLENN I-I. LnREsCI-rn.

ve cents each, by addressing the AlCommssoner of Qatents.

Washington,"

ne. f 

